Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- A Key to Abbreviations -- Introduction: Vonnegut in America -- Chapter One: Coming to Terms with Theme: Early Stories and Player Piano -- Chapter Two: Coming to Terms with Technique: The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Cat's Cradle, and God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater -- Chapter Three: Speaking Personally: Slaughterhouse-Five and the Essays -- Chapter Four: Speaking Famously: Happy Birthday, Wanda June -- Chapter Five: Speaking Cosmically: Galápagos, Bluebeard, and Hocus Pocus -- Chapter Six: The Autobiography of a Novel: Timequake -- Conclusion Vonnegut in Fiction -- Bibliography -- Index.